Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'cannot' occurs 412 times in the standard works.

99 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'cannot' in the standard works and contain 24% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 36 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 88:22-24 (5 in 3 verses)

D&C 132:17-21 (5 in 5 verses)

Moro. 7:10-11 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 11:37 (3 in 1 verse)

Job 23:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 12:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:61-62 (3 in 2 verses)

Job 28:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 44:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 3:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Ruth 4:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 1:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 38:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 59:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 10:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 10:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 4:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 15:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 12:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 18:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 30:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 34:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 13:31 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 5:8 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 10:37 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 105:5 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:15 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 135:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 56:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 14:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

John 8:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 12:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 15:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 27:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 32:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 16:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 9:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 103:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 104:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:71-72 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 131:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 113 0 113
Gen. 11 0 11
Ex. 2 0 2
Lev. 1 0 1
Num. 4 0 4
Deut. 1 0 1
Josh. 1 0 1
Judg. 2 0 2
Ruth 2 0 2
1 Sam. 4 0 4
2 Sam. 3 0 3
1 Kgs. 3 0 3
2 Chr. 3 0 3
Ezra 1 0 1
Neh. 1 0 1
Job 23 0 23
Ps. 6 0 6
Prov. 1 0 1
Eccl. 5 0 5
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 15 0 15
Jer. 17 0 17
Lam. 2 0 2
Dan. 1 0 1
Hosea 1 0 1
Jonah 1 0 1
Hab. 1 0 1
NT 71 0 71
BM 131 0 131
DC 89 0 89
PGP 8 0 8
TOTAL 412 0 412

1 Kgs. 3:8
And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

1 Kgs. 8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?

1 Kgs. 18:12
And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the Lord from my youth.